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- this ones gonna fuck me up. i actually think this one is going to destroy some goodwill, it specifically is worth maintaining...forever. and they have the resources to do it.by trueno
- Pepperidge Farm remembers when they removed the Telnet client (and ntpd, and a half dozen other things) from the OS and didn't warn anyone.by pudgywalsh
- Of course, right as I discover this tool and start using it to make ISO files, it's deprecated.
- > To conclude, I don’t understand why hdiutil needs to be deprecated when the same functionality will live on in diskutil. For some reason, Apple seems intent on breaking longtime workflows and scripts.
Brother, it’s Apple. Any backwards compatibility is purely incidental.
by DrJokepu - Consumer electronics, what do you expect ...by amelius
- Any reason to "upgrade"? I am still on Sonoma and don't see a point updating the system.by varispeed
- Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? I can still use my 12 year old MacBook Air. It’s not super current and not all apps work, but it’s actually still a decent Apple experience. Same with our old iPad. They kept it updated way longer than I expected.
- Given Apple's reputation as of late, I was mildly shocked to learn that I could connect a SATA optical drive to my Mac with a USB-SATA bridge, right click on an image in the Finder, and tell it to burn the image to DVD. This is under the latest beta of macOS.
You can call it incidental if you want, but it generally takes some effort to ensure everything works. That's especially true when you consider how much has changed since optical drives were common.
As for other forms of disk images, such as software distribution, those are still a common thing in macOS.
by II2II - Diskutil has been around for over a decade and slowly getting features that hdiutil was missing.
Things change but this is hardly some sort of sudden rug pull by Apple.
by detourdog - Been raving about my $3500 2021 (maybe 2020) m1 max 64gb outlasting the Windows x86 laptops I'd probably have replaced 2 maybe 3 times by now, but it absolutely feels slower this year to the point I reinstalled macos for the first time.
I don't know what they're doing but if they think I'm going to drop $6k for the similar m6 max now doing some planned obsolescence stuff I'll never be able to prove they're out of their minds.
I've heard golden gate is much faster than Tahoe but we'll see.
by swozey - Tahoe has destroyed macOS performance. I’m running a maxed out last gen intel and was getting stuttering and slide showing straight out of the update. It was completely unusable until I turned on reduced transparency.
Colleagues on much better spec’d M1/2/3 all noted similar, but not quite so drastic, slow downs.
The hugest issue is search appears to be universal broken. Spotlight doesn’t work, finder doesn’t work, email doesn’t work. The other day I had to login to Gmail through the web app for the first time in about 5 years to find an email I knew existed that mail decided didn’t exist.
Insult to injury is the search indexing service appears to be somewhat responsible for slowdowns. It’s right up there with the famous “windows updating in the background” slowdowns.
by fps-hero - I read this as hidutil and had a mini heart attack.by user19282
- "Despite giving Apple 100% reliable steps to reproduce, they asked me if the issue still occurred in the latest beta, and if it does, then I should submit an iOS sysdiagnose." No one looked at your repro steps, and no one researched your bug. They're just looking to cull the bug list. If you don't respond immediately, your radar is closed.by StilesCrisis
- Sometimes I almost believe there are whole sections of the Apple Ring building where the employees are so immersed in IOS that they're unaware MacOS exists.
- Gotta pump those metrics for the PMsby boredatoms
- Was the error visible somewhere through Console.app? This is a major annoyance for me with Cocoa/AppKit apps that basically have terminal usage secondary.by jstsch
- > Yes, Apple requested an iOS sysdiagnose for a macOS bug
Dealing with Apple's labyrinth maze that is Radar/Feedback is an exhausting nightmare, honestly. It leaves users intentionally blind as to the state of any FB's they raise, and (presumably unintentionally) gaslights users who attempt to improve the state of Apple's declining software products by repeatedly asking them for spindumps/sysdiagnoses that will subsequently either be ignored (sometimes for years), or re-requested in a future release.
I gave up attempting to engage with it years ago. Apple don't want technical feedback unless it's P1 security.
by lukeify - We’ve received many an email urging us to reach out to Apple via Feedback Assistant. We of course have, multiple times. We’re told that we will strike gold if we just resubmit a bug report to some other part of the company. Yet, the APIs are still broken, and break again with new releases. Sometimes they get back to us to clarify something, often they do not. Some things have been fixed, most have not.
I understand the realities of sifting through millions of reports, but the futility of being told to report harder and fighting with UX breaking bugs does not inspire confidence in Apple’s software teams. The bugs I am referring to are interactions where an app cannot update automatically or manually if you set this one flag, or your socket never fires any callbacks if you set the one cool flag, or this view mostly always fires a callback on dismissal, but not always. Some things we can work around, with varying degrees of effort. Some we cannot. It is very clear to me that nobody tests the things we run into, for I cannot imagine how anyone would let this stuff pass into production otherwise.
by eptcyka - It's just not worth it for individuals to volunteer their time for the benefit of the world's most valuable company.by kibwen
- So I guess ram disks are deprecated too? (AFAIR hdiutil was the only way to create them)by binaryturtle
- RAM itself is deprecated. All the new systems have about one fourth of the RAM they had two years ago.
Something about some insider B2B deals for data centers, blah blah blah.
I expect a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs, and GPUs to hit the scene within about two years, after the AI boom goes bust.
by anonymousiam - This is one of the things the new `diskutil image` subcommand mentioned in the article supports: `diskutil image attach ram://${size}m`.by plorkyeran
- I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).by oefrha
- The greed is as endless as the earth is old.
- Does it need to though? After so many years I can assume the program is complete as in there aren't any bugs left that need fixing and there aren't any new features needed in the scope of the programby leshenka
- > I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this […]
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” — Steve Jobs
Perhaps Apple is a "$4.5T company" because of the fact that they don't 'waste' time/energy on things they don't feel create value (for the company itself or for the company's customers)?
by throw0101d - Not working in a $4.5T company but often I found that people rather don’t _want_ to maintain the code than can’tby a012
- Refusing to maintain something isn't some sort of 'poorness signal', it's a wealth-neutral choice that could have any number of contextual drivers. Apple may not be eligible for 'too poor to maintain it' but invalidating one potential motivation leaves many others unaddressed and offers no useful argument against removal.by altairprime
- "can't" here isn't really the right word. They obviously could, in the same way that a company making $4.5 million could.
But there's a near infinite number of things they could do; they're constantly choosing which to actually do.
AI has made my life more productive and I could use the time it's saved me to go for a run, but here I am.
by akerl_